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I always inclined to say Dig Your Own Hole, but i've been listening to Surrender a lot recently and there are loads of great tracks on it i had forgotten about. Asleep From Day, Orange Wedge, the sunshine underground...

...has always been a very special album for me. Soundtracked a summer (and beyond). All that nostalgic schmaltz.

There are probably very strong cases for their subsequent albums, but (much as it saddens me to say it, considering my deep love for Exit...) The Chems carrer has been a case of diminishing returns for me. By the time of Star Guitar/Come With Us I'd pretty much jumped ship and haven't really returned to give 'em a proper shot at winning me back since then.

Exit Planet Dust is wrapped up for me with the summer of 1995 and plenty of, ahem, fuelled nostalgia. Ever since then they've been deteriorating badly. I gave up after Surrender, although I did buy the awful one with a fist on the cover, which was shite.

but, yeh, this could be related to some of my nights out at the time, which were almost exclusively soundtracked by Tom & Ed (DJing mainly). I clearly remember them trying out most of this lp in Turnmills. The thought of the first few plays of 'It Doesn't Matter' still send shivers through my body!

Trying to be impartial I think 'Surrender' probably is the correct answer. Although the latest 'Further' was pretty, pretty good. The Roundhouse shows that summer were the best I'd seen them for years.